What languages do you speak?
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I speak English and Spanish.
I speak English, igbo, and a bit of French. I am learning French because I have a couple of friends that are from France, and I will be happy to communicate with them without needing a translator.
iamawriter
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I speak English and a few local languages
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I only speak English, I never needed to speak another language.
iamawriter
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I speak in three different languages apart from English.
English is my first language. I did a total of 6 years of Spanish between middle/high school and college, though I don't use it very much anymore and can't remember much. I'm sure I could read it just fine, or at least figure it out, but speaking it and understanding it when hearing it spoken is a lot more of a struggle. I also did a couple years of Russian, one in high school and a year in college, but I ended up dropping it after a year in college because the upper level classes weren't being offered at the community college campus I was primarily going to and I didn't want to have to travel to another campus about half an hour away just for one class. I could've taken some of my other classes at the other campus too, but I was also just dissatisfied with the instruction I'd received in the classes I'd taken by that point, and I felt that continuing onto higher levels of the course wouldn't have been worth it and I would've struggled. My year of high school Russian was a hot mess, and while my year of college Russian was much better, it still didn't leave me feeling confident enough that I would do well at the higher level of coursework that would've been expected if I'd continued on. I'd passed the class, but I decided that finishing out my language credits with upper level Spanish was a far better and much easier choice than struggling through a language class.
It was a shame too because I really liked the idea of learning a "non-traditional" language, so to speak, and I really had high hopes and was excited to take the classes because it seemed so interesting and a bit of a challenge to learn a very different language than what I was used to, and I ended up just very disappointed because the instructors I had in the two years I'd done classes in the language were subpar.
It was a shame too because I really liked the idea of learning a "non-traditional" language, so to speak, and I really had high hopes and was excited to take the classes because it seemed so interesting and a bit of a challenge to learn a very different language than what I was used to, and I ended up just very disappointed because the instructors I had in the two years I'd done classes in the language were subpar.
I'm sorry to hear your instructors weren't that good. It's one of the hardest languages to learn. Do you still remember anything from the classes?
A little bit! I did a little bit of self-study after everything with Duolingo too, but I ended up dropping it because I was never really putting it into practice and the retention just wasn't there. I remember basic phrases, like "hello," "my name is," "thank you," and "good bye," but most things beyond that, I can't remember when it comes to words unless it's something that sounds similar in English (like "chocolate," for example). I largely remember the alphabet, but I wouldn't be able to understand what was written.
I hope someday you'll pick up the language again.
Have you ever wanted to learn another language? If so, which one?
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